China reports four more deaths, 129 bird flu cases
The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has risen to 31, according to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus in China’s eastern provinces.
The death toll from the H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has risen to 31, according to official figures, with four more people dying of the virus in China’s eastern provinces.
The deadly H7N9 bird flu strain claimed a new victim on Monday when a hospital patient died in China, state media reported, bringing the death toll from the recently identified virus to 24.
Chinese health officials say the 4-year-old son of a man infected with a new strain of bird flu has also caught the virus.
A World Health Organization team was due Monday to wrap up a trip to Shanghai, center of China’s bird flu outbreak which has killed 20 people, as part of an investigation into how the virus is spreading.
China’s H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease has been centred.
Chinese state media say police in southwest China have detained three people for spreading false rumors online that a new strain of bird flu had spread to their province.
China’s bird flu outbreak is “devastating” poultry sales, an industry group said Tuesday, as the H7N9 virus which has killed seven people triggered a new food safety scare.
An association of pigeon enthusiasts plans to vaccinate up to 90,000 of the birds in eastern China to help ward off the spread of the latest avian flu.
Shanghai has reported two more cases of human infection of a new strain of bird flu, raising the number of cases in eastern China to 20. The death toll among those who contracted the virus remains at six.
China stepped up efforts to curb a deadly bird flu outbreak centered on Shanghai Sunday, disinfecting schools and shutting down trade in birds as state media criticized “intense” farming for helping spread disease.
A second Chinese city culled birds Saturday to prevent the spread of H7N9 avian influenza, which has killed six people in the country, as Shanghai’s live poultry markets remained shut.
Shanghai’s live poultry markets were shut on Saturday after authorities banned trading in birds to prevent the spread of H7N9 bird flu, which has killed six people in China.
A man in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang had died of a new strain of bird flu, state media said Wednesday, bringing the total number of deaths attributed to the H7N9 virus to three.
